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The judge’s reasoning was clever and nuanced—but the case is hardly a slam-dunk.<p>“If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once wrote, “I will help them. It’s my job.”<p>In our time, Twitter is the nearest thing I can think of to hell on earth. On Wednesday, U.S. …

New documents obtained by the ACLU shed light on Amazon’s Rekognition project<p>Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, …

In new financial-disclosure documents, President Trump reported reimbursing his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, more than $100,000 last year — an apparent reference to the $130,000 that Cohen paid just before the 2016 election, to ensure the silence of an adult-film actress who claimed she’d had an …

Teachers across the country are striking and protesting en masse, shutting down school systems and putting the pressure on state lawmakers to meet their demands.<p>At least four states this year have mobilized, often with similar gripes. Educators in West Virginia and Oklahoma are lobbying for more …

<b>Updated at 11:11 a.m. ET</b><p>Noor Salman, widow of the gunman who opened fire on an Orlando nightclub in 2016, has been found not guilty on both the counts she faced. U.S. District Judge Paul Byron announced the verdict Friday, roughly one month after the trial opened.<p>Salman was the only person charged …

Facebook says it’s going to stop using data from third-party data providers like Experian and Acxiom.<p>Facebook is going to limit how much data it makes available to advertisers buying hyper-targeted ads on the social network.<p>More specifically, Facebook says it will stop using data from third-party …

• <b>President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that Amazon was causing 'tremendous loss’ to the Post Office.</b>• <b><br>Package delivery is actually one of the few areas of growth for the USPS.</b>• <b><br>Shares of Amazon fell roughly 3% after the tweet. You can track the stock price in real-time here>></b><p>Shares of Amazon declined …

Nothing but respect for MY president.<p>Brie Larson is gearing up for her starring role in <i>Captain Marvel</i>, and apparently she's method acting. By which we mean strength training at the gym like a real-life superhero.<p>The actress took to Instagram to show off what nine months of intensive training can do …

A video showing the Saudi military responding to an unprovoked attack by Iran is now more relevant than ever after a catastrophic failure from the kingdom's missile defenses.<p>The video first appeared in December 2017, and shows Saudi forces single-handedly destroying Iran's military and nuclear …

• A new form of Android malware has been discovered in the Google Play Store by security researchers.<br>• Named Andr/HiddnAd-AJ, the malware remains inactive for six hours after being downloaded before bombarding users with ads.<br>• The apps were downloaded more than half a million times, though Google has now …

President Trump has been uncharacteristically quiet when it comes to Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who allegedly had an affair with him during a Lake Tahoe celebrity golf tournament in 2006. Even after her sit down with Anderson Cooper on <i>60 Minutes</i> — which killed his own ratings for the …

<b>Tijuana, Mexico (CNN) —</b> A former US Army soldier whose felony conviction led to the revocation of his green card, his imprisonment, and, just days ago, his deportation to Mexico, said he will fight what he calls the unjust treatment of immigrant veterans.<p>"I belong in the (United States)," Miguel …

Maybe Vincent LaGuardia Gambini or Bob Loblaw can help.<p>President Donald Trump is struggling to find lawyers to join his legal team.<p>John Dowd, lead attorney for the president in the Russia probe, resigned last week. Ted Olson, who served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush, …

In a wide-ranging interview, the Facebook CEO admitted that the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago.<p>While not definitively saying yes, Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “open” to testifying before members of Congress regarding Facebook’s recent …

Apple has shared during its education event in Chicago today that student accounts through schools will now get 200GB of iCloud storage for free.<p>A considerable bump from the current 5GB of free iCloud storage, Apple will be giving the 200GB allotment to every student with a managed Apple ID.<p>Keep in …

When the mummified remains of a six-inch humanoid were found in an abandoned mining town in Chile’s Atacama desert 15 years ago, speculation on its origins ran wild. The skeleton, which was sold to a private collector in Spain, was so bizarre it appeared in a documentary as potential evidence for …

<b>(CNN) —</b> Seven days before national security adviser H.R. McMaster "resigned," President Donald Trump insisted that reports that McMaster was on his way out as part of a broader staff shakeup were totally and completely wrong.<p>"The story was very false," Trump said last Thursday in response to a slew …